Predictors of Self-Care Behavior: The Roles of Type D Personality and Locus of Control in Adults
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study aimed to examine the predictive role of Type D personality and locus of control on self-care behaviors among adults, particularly those managing chronic health conditions. Utilizing a cross-sectional design, data were collected from 370 participants through standardized instruments measuring Type D personality, locus of control, and self-care behaviors. Linear regression analysis was performed using SPSS-27 to assess the predictive relationships between the variables. The results indicated that both Type D personality and locus of control significantly predict self-care behaviors, accounting for 33% of the variance in self-care engagement. Specifically, Type D personality and an external locus of control were associated with poorer self-care practices. The study underscores the significant influence of psychological factors on self-care behaviors. Tailored interventions that consider individuals' psychological profiles may enhance self-care practices, particularly among those with chronic health conditions.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it